LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
While the Choir of Grey Court School Ham Sang Carols for An Hour Richmond Station a Collection of £114 Was Taken for the Rnli By the 14Th Richmond Sea Scouts (Group Shoreline Membe
While the choir of Grey Court School, Ham, sang carols for an hour Richmond station, a collection of £114 was taken for the RNLI by the 14th Richmond Sea Scouts (group Shoreline members). Altogether Richmondwith- Kew branch raised £... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The RNLI’s Very Last Arun Class Lifeboat On Service (right) Is Finally Withdrawn, Replaced At Calshot By A Former Relief Tyne Class (left)
The RNLI’s very last Arun class lifeboat on service (right) is finally withdrawn, replaced at Calshot by a former relief Tyne class (left). The first Arun, named Arun, was built in 1971 and had a wooden hull. The last, Duke of Atholl, was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Neglected Caravan Found In a Field and Bought for £40 Has Been Re-Furbished By Fareham Branch
A neglected caravan, found in a field and bought for £40, has been re-furbished by Fareham branch for fund raising with help in cash and kind from local firms. At Fareham Show, Mrs Wendy Nelson, RO (South), gives a toast to the success... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Books
• The Flamborough Life-boats: A History of the Flamborough Stations, by Ralph S. Fawcett (Fawcett, 74 Lime Grove, Draycott, Derby, price 25p plus 5p postage) tells the story of one of Yorkshire's famous stations. Before 1871 there had,...
Category: Articles
Rewards Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, From the 1st April to the 31st December, 1855
February 25.—The ship Simoon, of Liverpool, during foggy weather, struck on a sunken rock in St. Bride's Bay. Six men went off to her assistance in a shore boat, and after some difficulty, from the thickness of the fog, they succeeded in...
Category: Articles
Saving lives overseas
An estimated 1.2M people drown every year across the world – about the same number who die of malaria. Despite the scale of the problem, relatively little has been done to tackle it – until now
Category: Articles
One Way of Propelling the Atlantic 21 Launching Trolley: Dodo a Separate Conventional Four-Wheel Drive Tractor Encased In a Watertight 'Hull' of Steel and Armour Plate
One way of propelling the Atlantic 21 launching trolley: DODO a separate conventional four-wheel drive tractor encased in a watertight 'hull' of steel and armour plated glass. On the trolley itself, outboard, can be seen the cooling... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bose
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When we introduced our original ACOUSTIC WAVE® music system, Sound & Vision said it...
Category: Advertisement
The Late Mr. Thos. Baring, M.P., Chairman of the Institution
THIS gentleman, who had been for nearly twenty years the much-respected Chairman of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, died at Bournemouth on the 18th Nov., after a lingering illness, extending over two years. He was in the 74th year of Ms...
Category: Obituaries
People and Places
New Year honours Her Majesty the Queen has honoured three people for their services to the RNLI in this year's New Year Honours: Mrs Marion Judge, lately member and officer of Wakefield ladies' lifeboat guild, has been made a Member,...
Category: Articles